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LibreOffice 7

Neil Mohr discovers what’s new in this latest release of the office   suite that is one of the crown jewels of the open source world.

EndeavourOS 7.15.2020

Just as HMS Endeavour explored the unknown southern lands, so Jonni Bidwell uses EndeavourOS to explore Arch…

Mailserver

Write to us at Linux Format, Future Publishing, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA or lxf.letters@futurenet.com.

Tropico 6

Management are terrified of the new Linux Format workers’ council, but it’s just Phil Savage playing at communism under a hot sun.

BunsenLabs Lithium

Forever grunge Jonni Bidwell is pleased to find a distribution that’s almost as good as the Nirvana song. Almost…

PRESSURE VESSEL

Jonni Bidwell gets on the video chat to   talk video games and message buses  with D-Bus guru Simon McVittie

Crucial P2 500GB

What’s this? Low-cost SATA-breaking speed without the DRAM?   Sean Webster is impressed, albeit with a few reservations.

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X

Is this the Goldilocks chip? Well, Zak Storey did catch it stealing porridge from Intel, so the moniker might stick…

BACK UP LIKE CLOCKWORK!

Jonni Bidwell has a plan – several plans, in fact – to keep his ever-growing repository of data ticking over nicely.

4tronix Picon Plus

Les Pounder needs to build a robot to help during social isolation. But can he build a robot butler to deliver more Pis to his table?

Mainframe Mage

Jonni Bidwell reconnects with mainframe guru John Mertic and somehow ends up talking about Doom and cheesecake…

Open Source Underground

Mike Bedford on why caving needn’t only pose a physical challenge – it’s also your chance to try out exciting bits of FOSS-powered kit!

MINT 20

The latest Mint, codenamed Ulyana, is here and so is the herbaceous Jonni Bidwell to tell you all about it.

Robolinux 11

Review bot-at-large Jonni Bidwell does his damnedest to look past the late 90s-stylings of this project’s website…

Intel Core i9-10900K

Zak Storey straps himself in, ready to ride Intel’s fastest chip yet!

Waveshare Game HAT

Stretching the idea of what a Pi HAT can do, Neil Mohr settles in for some portable retro gaming.

Calculate Linux 20.6

After that last review, Jonni Bidwell finds something much more suited to his highbrow tastes: a Russian distro based on the venerable Gentoo.

Besiege

Management have fended off many a pleb revolt against LXF Towers, but Rick Lane has been plotting and practising with mighty siege machines!

Intel Frost Canyon NUC

The latest generation of small form computing from Intel gets a mini makeover, reveals Stuart Burns.

Lair Of The Clockwork God

Management only fear the elder gods and the taxman, Chris Schiling is neither, so he’s been sent off to the content mines to dig up some words.

Purism Librem 5

Yes, it’s an open-source smartphone for the privacy- and security-conscious user, but is it easy to operate, asks Christian Cawley…

OPEN BRITANNIA

Linux Format puts on its clean shirt and trousers to go on a VoIP call with Amanda Brock and discuss OpenUK, influencing government policy and how old we all are.

Mabox Linux 20.02

Having convinced himself that the days of striking one-man distros were over, Mayank Sharma is pleasantly surprised when he finds one.

NEXT-GEN DISTROS

Step right up – LXF’s greatest showman Jonni Bidwell is here to unveil the finest Linux distros around!

LED Strip HAT Mini

Les Pounder, unlike Gremlins, loves bright lights. So when a new board offered easy access to controllable RGB LEDs, he built a new gizmo!

DXT2 1.2

Unable to control his fetish for tinkering with new distros, at long last Mayank Sharma finds himself a newcomer that isn’t half bad…

How To Record, Edit And Manipulate Audio

Listen up – Mike Bedford’s on hand to show us how to record and work with audio, using the digital sound editor and recording program Audacity.

Raspberry Pi High-Quality Camera

Interchangeable lenses, powerful sensor, flexibility and resolution all make a winner says.

Program the Manchester Baby

The Manchester Baby was the world’s first real computer. Mike Bedford introduces this pioneering machine and shows you how to write code for it.

Pop!_OS 20.04

Ne’er have we seen such an excited Jonni Bidwell as when he heard that Pop!_OS does window tiling now!